On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Barrie Slaymaker wrote:
> I'm not going to volunteer for a POD DOM approach, but I am volunteering
> to help
>
> - factor the $self->cmd_foo() dispatcher from Pod::Text to Pod::Parser
> or (new) Pod::Dispatcher or something
> - implement a Pod::StdParser that adds support for standard constructs
> - filtering on =for/=begin...=end tags
> - =also
> - warning & errors detection
> - tweak Pod::Text to be a Pod::StdParser
> - perhaps write Pod::Extractor::Tests (or whatever) to do POD->test suite
> extraction. This will also need some modes to MakeMaker, I think, to
> extract the test suites as part of target 'pure_all' or something.
>
I noticed a lot of this when I wrote Pod::LaTeX -- about 90% of the code
was taken directly from my (private) Pod::Html translator.
It's clear that a generic translator class should also be able to handle
the automatic podifying of variables and functions etc.
--
Tim Jenness
JCMT software engineer/Support scientist
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
